Of possible interest: fast UTF8 validation

[Walter Bright]

On 5/16/2018 10:28 AM, Ethan wrote:
> (Related: one feature I'd really really really love for linkers to implement is 
> the ability to mark up certain functions to only ever be linked at a certain 
> byte boundary. And that's purely because Jaguar branch prediction often made my 
> profiling tests non-deterministic between compiles. A NOP is a legit 
> optimisation on those processors.)

Linkers already do that. Alignment is specified on all symbols emitted by the 
compiler, and the linker uses that info.